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| Nwakuba, Nnaemeka Reginald; Asoegwu, S.N.; Nwaigwe, K.N.. |
| This work presented a review of energy requirement for drying sliced agricultural crops in order to produce high quality and shelf-stable products. Work on the estimation of energy requirement for drying different sliced crops such as potato, carrot, garlic, onions, mango, banana, apple, tomato etc. and factors affecting their energy requirement were reported. From the review, programming models for drying sliced fruits, as well as different empirical equations adopted by some researchers for estimating the energy requirements of different sliced crops at specific drying parameters were reported. Obtained results showed that crop functional characteristics, initial and desired moisture contents, slice thickness, air temperatures, specific heat capacity,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering; Processing and Postharvest systems crop drying sliced product energy requirement dryers heat. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3605 |
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| Ezeanya, Nnaemeka Charles; Nwakuba, Nnaemeka Reginald. |
| This paper aimed at modeling the effect of dryer configurations on the thin-layer solar drying kinetics of ogbono seeds. Ogbono seeds were dried using a solar drying system, which was a forced convection distributed type solar collector, equipped with a sun-tracking mechanism. The seeds were dried at four different tilt angles of 0, 5, 10, and 15°; two absorber plate thicknesses of 1.5 mm and 2.7mm; and a constant air velocity of 2 ms-1. The drying data obtained from the experiment was fitted to six thin-layer drying predictive models. The effective moisture diffusivities at varying treatments as well as the activation energy of the ogbono seeds were determined. Results from the experiment revealed that the drying kinetics of the seeds varied with the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 2023 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/8477 |
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